Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney's running mate?

[FuryOfFirestorm]

Well we all know that Norquist is the Hand or should I say "invisible hand". That will be lost on many.

I think you're confusing the Munsters with the Addams Family. The Addams had a disembodied hand named "Thing". The Munsters had no living appendages.

 

[maxpowr9]

I think you're confusing the Munsters with the Addams Family. The Addams had a disembodied hand named "Thing". The Munsters had no living appendages.

I assume you are correct. Pop Culture is normally my stint in a trivia contest and I guess that tidbit has failed me. Oh well. History gets relished to obscure facts like how the last Czar of Russia was Nicholas II where him and his entire family was assassinated.

 

[frankfrank]

I suck like a fukkin' hoover, why is that a bad thing?

Nothing sucks like an Electrolux.

 

[GhostMost]

Man oh man this debate of hotness has gone down the drain :/

 

[chance1]

Man oh man this debate of hotness has gone down the drain :/

sexual repression is a terrible thingy

 

[FuryOfFirestorm]

Prepare for trouble.

Make it double.

To protect the world from gay population.

To unite rich people within our nation.

Romney.

Ryan.

TEAM WHITE BREAD BLAST OFF AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT!
SURRENDER NOW AND LOSE YOUR RIGHTS !

Meowth! Pro-life!

 

[Jack Springer]

MisterMajestic, it's hard to tell whether or not you're serious, or just joking.

Assuming you're serious, MisterMajestic, do you understand we're talking about health insurance, and not my personal finances?

Listen, when I turn 65, I--and very few other people--will be able to afford health insurance, even with that paltry $6k a year. And that's assuming that they'll offer me a policy in the first place.

Most likely, no one will insure me, or anybody else my age.

That will leave literally milions of seniors uninsured. This is not rocket science, MisterMajestic.

<scratches head> You can't be serious with this stuff, can you?

If ObamaCare was structured like it should have been -- it would have addressed the cost of insurance -- which it doesn't.

Why am I saying this? Most people have been lead to believe that ObamaCare will make insurance more affordable --- are they going to be surprised.

Seniors that currently have Medicare Advantage are going to be surprised next October/November when they get their notice that it's been canceled (no worry for Obama, he got their vote in 2012 and really pulled a fast one on them).

Medicare recipients will get a surprise in the next several years when they go to the doctor to find out that their coverage doesn't cover all the things it used to cover and their coverage depends on their age, their health problems. (no worry for Obama, he got their vote in 2012)

 

[MisterMajestic]

MisterMajestic, it's hard to tell whether or not you're serious, or just joking.

Assuming you're serious, MisterMajestic, do you understand we're talking about health insurance, and not my personal finances?

Listen, when I turn 65, I--and very few other people--will be able to afford health insurance, even with that paltry $6k a year. And that's assuming that they'll offer me a policy in the first place.

Most likely, no one will insure me, or anybody else my age.

That will leave literally milions of seniors uninsured. This is not rocket science, MisterMajestic.

<scratches head> You can't be serious with this stuff, can you?

And when you turn 65 you'll be scratching your head wondering why you didnt come up with other ways to make and save money....

JohannBessler the difference between the 2 of us is that I will be financially SECURE @ 65 if Medicare & Social Security DISAPPEARS today, tomorow or the day I plan to retire...

You don't even know if you'll have your home paid off when you turn 65 do you? So there's a chance the Government Will NOT have you back with Medicare & Social Security and you're gonna be homeless...The STRIKES against you are adding up and Health Inusrance is only part of your worries man....

You better stop scratching your head and get your act together TODAY or get a Rich Boyfriend...There's nothing to laugh about from where you're sitting.......

 

[LuvFindsAndyHardy]

JohannBessler the difference between the 2 of us is that I will be financially SECURE @ 65 if Medicare & Social Security DISAPPEARS today, tomorow or the day I plan to retire...

Well fucking good for you. What's your point? You're just SMARTER than everybody else and they all deserve to be fucked because they don't have your mad skills?

You better stop scratching your head and get your act together TODAY or get a Rich Boyfriend...There's nothing to laugh about from where you're sitting.......

You sound downright pleased to say that. It's a compassionless and creepy sentiment, but (based on your posting style) par for the course are far as you're concerned. Blech.

 

[GhostMost]

Prepare for trouble.

Make it double.

To protect the world from gay population.

To unite rich people within our nation.

Romney.

Ryan.

TEAM WHITE BREAD BLAST OFF AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT!
SURRENDER NOW AND LOSE YOUR RIGHTS !

Meowth! Pro-life!

See I've seen this thing around the internet, but why team white bread? Like are people really this dumb and clever, like they can do much better with the name.

 

[MisterMajestic]

I think Team White Bread is absolutely fitting... I thought the republicans were aiming for someone like Rubio in order to "attract" the Latino vote... but Romney picked a rich white guy. Yeah, team white bread seems appropriate.

You knew like everybody else that after Obama gave the Illegals a 2yr grace period Rubio's chances as Veep-pick-in-waiting was shot to Hell...Romney had no other choice but to pick a Qualified White Guy like Paul because the Latino vote is all but LOST and Women hate his Pretty Guts....

 

[MisterMajestic]

^^^JohannB you are FULL of the Blah, blah, Blahs today I see....Are you renting the Violins or did you purchase them?

 

[vulgar_newcomer]

If Romney/Ryan take over the White House come November we all know Obamacare is GONE...Just do what most people do that don't have insurance...Go to the emergency room with all your health issues and The State Government will take your tax return when you file...

Or Plan B....

Find a job that offers health-care benefits or get a part time job and search for individual health care insurance from a Provider that offers it within your state...

You seem to be lacking in education for what the ER does. The ER is not a long term treatment facility for things such as diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, cholesterol, stroke recover, physical therapy.
The ER is for stabilization of a health issue at that moment. So if you have a heart attack or a stroke the ER is the place, but once your stabilized you are out.
It is not a place to bring your scripts to get filled such as if you have HIV, peripheral neuropathy , kidney disease, skin fungal infection, etc.
You may be treated for a heart attack, but need surgery in the very near future however once stabilized you are released and on your own. The hospital may try and help the person without health insurance find programs to allow them that life saving surgery but its tough as things are now in 2012.
You may break your back in a car accident and be paralyzed needing a lot of medical aide to live the best you can, but once that condition is satisfied with the ER for treatment of the broken back you are released and on your own.
This nonsense to use the ER for medical needs is just stupid and not true.

Many jobs, even more true in dark water swamp holes like Richland County South Carolina have piss pour health insurance plans. The employee thinks they really have something because they have a group plan at work.
Then some thing happens and they go to use it and find out the plan is a POS, covers next to nothing after they get straddled with the bills.

I won't forget my good friend who was 25 getting off his night shift as a toll collector from a State contractor. He went down to the beach after his shift on his motorcycle and was hit by a car. He was in a coma. The contractor told his Mother they would allow her to keep paying the health insurance as he was out of work laying brain dead in the ICU. She was grateful because it was very expensive naturally. Only to find out the contractors employee plan had a max benefit of $1,500 a yr , and 2 physicals/Dr visits. Pfffftttt.
When it was a state job it had decent benefits, but the contractor didn't follow through with the cost of that plan or the pay schedule for those jobs, dropping both to poverty nothing.
However the contractor advertised the job with health benefits to attract interest in the toll collector position which many would think is a good state job on a state or federal road. Its a con, a ploy. Young and old people really never pay attention to what exactly they are getting only how much it cost if anything.

After a few days the hospital said we have to release your son, we have done all we can and he cannot remain in ICU.

If I didn't have compassion I almost would hope you get to find out first hand how very fucking awful things can get in a heart beat. But I don't wish that on anyone.

 

[jackoroe]

I think Team White Bread is absolutely fitting... I thought the republicans were aiming for someone like Rubio in order to "attract" the Latino vote... but Romney picked a rich white guy. Yeah, team white bread seems appropriate.

White bread is racially offensive. Let's not go there.

 

[rareboy]

^ ^Well stated, Vulgar.

The use of the emerg department for episodic care, usually at a more serious stage of an illness is the stupidest way for citizens in any nation to get health care.

What the US needs is a good, broad, simple primary health system that would produce better outcomes and lower the cost per case to more reasonable levels.

The US needs a single payer universal health plan that won't keep bankrupting the citizens, either for their own care costs, or having to over pay for all the public service (including Congress and Senate) health care plans.

 

[TX-Beau]

White bread is racially offensive. Let's not go there.

So is "Hussein."

 

[White Eagle]

This doesn't require much of an introduction but you can thank Democratic Underground for it.


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[chance1]

White bread is racially offensive. Let's not go there.

it wouldn't surprise me to hear an Obama surrogate use the same term

 

[Benvolio]

^The problem is that too many young people aren't paying into the system (don't have health insurance).

Actuarial science works on the principle that highest-risk individuals {Text removed by moderator} must be subsidised by healthy individuals, so that the risk can be spread out.

The status quo doesn't work that way. Very many young, low-risk individuals either choose not to be insured, or don't have it available to them.

This is why the status quo is in danger of collapse. It really is a question of numbers.

No, good drivers do not pay more so that bad drivers can pay less. Young people do not pay more for life insurance to give a bargain to older. Owners of small houses do not subsidize owners of mansions. Group insurance does some leveling in health and life. But a big part of the reason there are so many uninsured is that healthy young people have trouble buying non group insurance proportionate with their risk and without subsidizing the aged. Hussein hopes to solve this by forcing healthy people to pay exhorbitant premiums to give a gift to those who are already sick.

 

[GhostMost]

^^^JohannB you are FULL of the Blah, blah, Blahs today I see....Are you renting the Violins or did you purchase them?

omg did anyone read this? idk ikr